Sometimes i set out with an idea i want to try out, sometimes i just start by putting pencil to paper and seeing where it goes. This is one of those. I launch from my source material, but no preconceptions, no agenda, no real thinking - just playing. (Image shown is cropped)
All my recent drawings will be exhibited in a solo presentation, ‘Precarious Structures’ with @arushagallery@drawartfairlondon to be held @saatchi_gallery London 15th -19th May (open to the public from 17th)

Utilitarian or Frivolity .
Nothing frivolous about Boro.
It is totally utilitarian and awesome in all its fibres of being.
It hit ground again this morning when I read the article. Things that you do as matter of living that become something else for others. The utilitarian that becomes another utensil for something for others. There are phases of stuff cropping up in art and design and they always have roots in something that just discusses life and ways of doing and looking. .
The process of Boro and meanings and impacts attached touch on tons of points I question over and over about ethics practices my own work cultural approaches individual character and needs and impact. Things I have question as a person child and now old and things o have questioned as an artist and now as a designer and artist and being child and old. .
I was going to write more here on the subject but a blog post might be best. I said that some time ago about something else and never got to write the blog post. I have left blog content to one side for a while because a crazy busy schedule of research making prepping and thinking has not left much time for long spurts of writing and I also have not been as organised as I should be and need to be.
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Years ago a friend left for Melbourne and we promised to write. That has also been put on the back burner until this week where I have decided to use some of that gorgeous paper from ecocraft to write to her. I write a bit each day to her across a few days and in that way I make the time to attend to stuff that I let go off and it does not feel like I am taking time away from the humongous ever self expanding to do list eternally interrupted by the usual unexpected series of mishaps. .
On that I am off to attend to some of those mishaps so that I can that shop does actually open up at some point this spring!
Then I’ll write a bit to B then it’ll have to be bed because tomorrow is another crazy day at the other job.
. 📷https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/furugistarjapan.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/boro-japanese-folk-fabric/amp/
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